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Shrewd and Hostile Women in 'Five Easy Pieces' and 'Rip Van Winkle'

counterparts instead. By transposing these characteristics from male to female, the male character is given the opportunity to el...

A Review of Fences

An 8 page review of the book by August Wilson. This paper focuses on the theme of oppression, a theme that affects not just Afric...

Three Novels on Women as Victims of Violence

In five pages this research paper analyzes how women were victimized by social oppression and violence in Edwidge Danticat's Breat...

A Historical Critique of 'The Yellow Wallpaper'

This paper of 7 pages chronicle's the female protagonist's descent into madness due to the oppression of the patriarchy and its in...

Treating Others and Religion

In eighteen pages this paper discusses the treatment of others who have different religious beliefs in this consideration of perse...

African American Artist Charles White

In fourteen pages this research paper discusses the life and work of artist Charles White and how his art reflects his commitment ...

Abused Females Who Kill

In twenty pages the act of abused women killing their abusers are discussed within a socioeconomic context and a notable correlati...

Derek Walcott, Chinua Achebe, and Non Native Writers Use of English

cursory look at Achebes work shows that this is a reasoned and well thought-out choice that serves to underscores the authors mess...

Human Relations and Oppression

In five pages this report assesses whether or not human relations are improving before concluding that the abundance of oppression...

19th Century Social Constraints Imposed on Women and Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence and House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

In 5 pages this paper examines 19th century female social oppression within the context of these two literary works. There are 5 ...

U.S. Oppression of Hispanics

In eight pages a fictional interview with an Hispanic father named Jose discussing equal rights, economics, society, and education...

The Meaning of the Oppression of Women

This 6 page paper examines two articles by Marilyn Frye and Elizabeth Spelman, who write about the oppression of women and what it...

2 Articles on Female Oppression

In six pages this paper discusses female oppression in a comparative analysis of articles written by Marilyn Frye and Elizabeth Sp...

Racism and Criminality in Native Son

many of the same factors that Wright presented in the life of Bigger. Baldwin writes, for example, that he himself is a product o...

Race in the Movie The Blind Side

Michaels fate finally changes for the better. The wealthy family of a white boy that has befriended him driving down the road and...

"The Yellow Wallpaper" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Use of Setting

it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....

Race, Social Class And Minorities

By casting a negative light toward, for example, being black, the criminal justice system clearly demonstrates a great deal of ign...

Islamic Women: Feminist Influence

roles. Inasmuch as the barricade toward womens rights "remains deeply rooted in traditional Islamic culture" (Witte 2005:A24), it...

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

there are few who are literally starving to death--there is AFDC, shelters, charities--there are two classes in society which are ...

Defiance in 'Sweat' by Zora Neale Hurston

and the house that she purchased with sweat and labor. However, Delia makes it clear that she will not be driven out. She tells hi...

Derek Walcott's Omeros

empires that have traditionally taken advantage of other cultures, cultures that are far more open about their societies and thus ...

Race Matters from a Critical Perspective

important issues about racism and oppression for black Americans. It is difficult to argue with many of his premises because hist...

Oppression and the Instruments of Josef Stalin

captivating. His ability to analyze a situation and devise the best logistics for rectifying it were also a part of his mechanism...

Continuing Oppression of Disabled Individuals

specific individual. According to Joseph Shapiro (author of No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement)...

New World Dominance of Europe

been painted by historians was simply untrue. Clearly, the Europeans took the land that belonged to the Indians. While few dispute...

Comparing Characters Lutie Johnson in Ann Petry's The Street and Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

the Scripture and the statute-book. Then let the magistrates, who have made it of no effect, thank themselves if their own wives ...

Freedom from Oppression in Night by Elie Wiesel, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.

was free only in the technical sense. Within, he remained as oppressed as he had been when the Nazis imprisoned him and his famil...

Sex as Power in Relationships in 'The Wife of Bath' and 'Lysistrata'

condemned; the Apostle said that my husband would be my debtor, and I have power over his body. Three of my husbands were good an...

Oppression and What It Means

that different groups may be oppressed. For instance, WEB DuBois fought for the oppression of African Americans whereas Marx and E...

What Would You Put Yourself on the Line For

Chris Dixon, a prolific writer and speaker is also an anarchist. This paper discusses some of his ideas and what he and peers are ...